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Around Britten

BENJAMIN BRITTEN

Third Suite for Cello, Op.87 (1971)

1

I

Introduzione: Lento

2:10

2

II

Marcia: Allegro

1:49

3

III

Canto: Con moto

1:19

4

IV

Barcarola: Lento

1:33

5

V

Dialogo: Allegretto

1:42

6

VI

Fuga: Andante espressivo

2:55

7

VII

Recitativo: Fantastico

1:07

8

VIII

Moto perpetuo: Presto

0:57

9

IX

Passacaglia: Lento solenne

4:25

10

Mournful Song

0:33

11

Autumn

0:19

12

Street Song

0:26

13

Depart in peace, with the Saints (Kontakion)

2:42

TRAD, ARR. BRITTEN ARR. BARLEY

14

Greensleeves (1941)

2:06

15

The Salley Gardens (1941)

2:33

GAVIN BRYARS

Tre Laude Dolce (2007)

16

I

6:26

17

II

5:18

18

III

5:47

BENJAMIN BRITTEN

arr. Barley

19

Since she whom I loved (1945)

3:28

JOHN TAVENER

20

Threnos (1991)

7:12

21

Chant (1995)

4:25

BENJAMIN BRITTEN

arr. Barley

22

Concord (1953)

2:26

MATTHEW BARLEY

23

Improvisation (2012)

9:52

TRAD, ARR. BRITTEN ARR. BARLEY

24

Oliver Cromwell (1941)

0:49

Signum SIG 318

Around Britain – Matthew Barley

Matthew Barley adds to his reputation as one of the UK’s most innovative and creative performers with Around Britten, a the new programme and CD celebrating the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten with a selection of his works, including the Third Cello Suite, and pieces by Sir John Tavener and Gavin Bryars.

The release coincides with the start of a tour of 100 events taking Britten’s music to a kaleidoscopic variety of venues around the UK, and reaching a huge cross-section of British society. As well as recitals in conventional concert halls, Barley will play in galleries, a café, a woodland in Devon, a number of cathedrals (including Canterbury), around twelve different National Trust properties, and Britten’s library at the Red House in Aldeburgh. The events will be featured across the year in the magazine BBC Music, and one concert will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

"...The recording has, in fact, been most sensitively done. The cello is recorded closely, and only in silences is the listener really conscious of the vast spaces that surround the instrument. The acoustic gives an added aura to Barley’s already rich and beautiful tone and the reverberation brings a most evocative atmosphere to which even the distant flight of gulls that punctuates one of Tavener’s pieces can only add..."